silný vítr

By now the wind, supposedly prevailing from the west, was blowing half a gale directly from the east, straight into our faces. WebCorp

Can you start a fire when it's blowing half a gale and the rain is coming down in buckets? WebCorp

It's not more than three miles away, and it's only blowing about half a gale - there's a cutter to go ashore in. WebCorp

velmi chladno, mrazivo

Additionally, cycles and motor cycles could pass either side of the table to avoid the potential skid risk in wet or icy conditions. BNC

Last night AA Roadwatch urged drivers to take care in the icy conditions and said it anticipated problems with heavy traffic during the holiday period. BNC

But the warning is that not every road is treated with salt; and even if it is, not every road is safe in icy conditions: and sometimes it's even hard going for the experts. BNC

konzervativec

Only cynics would have called him stick-in-the-mud or sneered at him being `worthy'. BNC

I was always called stick-in-the-mud by one of my masters. BNC.

'Anyway, I'm not interested in married men.' 'Oh, don't be such a stick-in-the-mud.' CALD

náhlé milostné vzplanutí

It was a whirlwind romance, all right, and nobody could talk any sense into Freda. BNC

In 1966 she married German playboy Gunther Sachs, following a whirlwind romance. BNC

They had a whirlwind romance, and after a few months she'd started hinting for a ring. BNC

vyjasnit se

I’m also going to plant the peonies I bought on Saturday next weekend, which is also a little early, but will probably turn out fine. WebCorp

It's not about sitting back passively and believing that things will turn out fine on their own. WebCorp

From the pope's display of determination, Heikkila found a new inspiration that his life ahead will turn out fine as long as he keeps his faith and practises it. WebCorp

vyzývat k zachování klidu

The appeal for calm, linked with the threat of a crackdown, followed similar warnings on Wednesday by the armed forces and the government. BNC

The Governor-General, Sir Paul Scoon, broadcast an appeal for calm to the country's 103,000 people. BNC

Those scenes and others outside the murder investigation headquarters in Bootle yesterday prompted an appeal for calm from the Bulger family and the police. BNC

hromosvod

Glasgow's first lightning conductor drank the power of creation and waited for more. BNC

Two physicists at the University of Sydney in Australia had a piece of copper tubing, used as a lightning conductor, which had been crushed as the electrical current passed through it. BNC

Franklin had also been invited to advise Glasgow University in the matter of a lightning conductor. BNC

stoupající hladina moří

Meanwhile many studies of potential local effects of rising sea level are under way. BNC

A rising sea level will erode shorelines, increase coastal flooding, encourage saltwater intrusion into coastal soils, aquifers and along estuaries, damage coastal marshes and swamps, induce higher storm surges and alter ocean currents. BNC

The quality of paintings in the cave, whose tunnel entrance was submerged by the rising sea level as the last Ice Age ended, are of such exceptional quality that their authenticity was originally doubted. BNC 

mořské pobřeží

Offloading from a tanker on the Pacific seaboard into the pipeline system was last night suspended. BNC

California is the major industrial polluter of the eastern Pacific seaboard. BNC

Palestine remained a passionately felt issue by the Arab masses from the Atlantic seaboard to the Indian Ocean. BCN

přetečení, vylití

We put our litter back into our rucksacks as all the bins were full to overflowing, and Elinor and Otley set off in the direction of Fair Hill where all the caravans were resting. BNC

He tossed the empty packet onto the overflowing bin in the corner of the room and sat down at the table. BNC

Crushing the cigarette stub in an overflowing ashtray, the officer pushed his chair back and stood up. BNC

jarní tání

However, concentrations were low in April 2001, following the spring melt period. WebCorp

Concentrations increased with the rise in the hydrography during spring melt, reaching the highest concentration as the hydrography began to fall.WebCorp

In some rivers, such as those around here, the maximum flow comes with the spring melt.WebCorp

něčím zaplaven, ohromen

Then they see the size of the crowd or the famous VIP arriving and they are overwhelmed with terror. BNC 

Before long if we are not careful we shall be overwhelmed with things that are tenth-rate. BNC

But as I listened to the stories of these prisoners it was difficult not to be overwhelmed with feelings of hate and revenge. BNC

zasažen bleskem

In the past it was thought that the chance of having a glider struck by lightning in cloud was negligible. BNC

An eloquent man called Marcus fretted about bombs, turbulence, being struck by lightning and ageing planes. BNC

Travelling home one night in a violent storm, Polly was struck by lightning and had to be destroyed. BNC

větrná korouhev

The Hungarian news agency MTI said yesterday that the 1.6 tonne steel star would be replaced by a weather vane. BNC

We reached St Paul's, the great copper eagle on its weather vane dazzling in the weak sunlight. BNC

A strange, fixed weather vane that stands in the lee of the vicarage at Rennes-le-Chateau. BNC

šlamastyka, brynda

Like Mr Segni, Mr Orlando says electoral reform is essential if Italy is to escape from its `political quagmire'. BNC

This would enable the men on the bank to keep her head up and give more time to spend on the attempts to raise her from the quagmire. BNC

One Labour peer admits that, if the abolition of the life and hereditary peerage removes the independent crossbencher, you enter a `constitutional quagmire'. BNC